[IrishBrewer]

Good point about counting the provisional votes.

Now that Kerry has conceeded, will all of the provisional absentee votes pretty much be ashcanned? I too think that it would be interesting to find out what percentage of them are valid and both those that ARE and are NOT valid, what were the splits.

[kj123]

Beware the funny ballots. Down in Florida, we had an amendment to tax slot machines which the gambling industry backed because it would have made it easier to place slot machines all over the state. The measure was losing until 75,000 absentee ballots showed up from, guess where, Broward County-remember them from 2000. Amazingly enough, 72,000 of the 75,000 were "for" the proposal, which then passed by a whisker. An investigation is under way.